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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1395537)	3/22/2023 6:05:15 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572384

"Despite all the dire projections, we're still here" I don't remember any projections saying most of us wouldn't still be here, in homes that haven't burned or flooded, except maybe this.... Ocasio-Cortez on climate: Millennials fear world will end in 12 ... usatoday.com Jan 22, 2019 — 'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says What she should have said was "We have 12 years to cut CO2 emissions in half if we're gonna keep temps below 1.5 degrees". Well, we did address it, but we're not gonna hold temps below 1.5 degrees. -- " I think my lack of urgency is reasonable." I think it would be a whole lot more urgent right now if you were living in The Valley, or maybe even on the coast. == "We're more likely to die due to being overweight, or due to some new virus that leaQs out of a lab, or due to nooklear holocaust, than we are due to that climate changey thingy." Americans suffer from obesity; the rest of the world not so much. Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year Some humanitarian and climate officials this year have warned that ... in the 2011 famine in Somalia in which a quarter-million people died. .2 days ago -- Drought in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya now worse than during 2011 famine The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center said below-normal ... surpass those of the famine declared in the country in 2011. .1 month ago == "But I also think that all this alarmism, all this dogma, all this religious-based thinking, is more harmful than helpful." I think that is pure ideological bullshit.